In 2024, the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters celebrates our 25th year as a welcoming, vibrant writing studio where people from across Portland and from around the globe come to get inspired, find literary community, and grow as writers. ...
A ghost in the attic It is here my reportage takes a quirky turn. Purely by accident, I discovered my very own ghost in the attic, in a set of journals belonging to the previous owner of my house. Stay with me here, I haven’t lost it. This will all make sense in a moment....
Here are some stories and poems from Every Writer. Much of our stories and poems will be moving here in the future.
Short story writers question the world of appearances and in that questioning cast doubt on the immediately apparent and, at the same time, signify the timeless universals beyond the extensional world. In the short story, questioning is embodied in technique, what is questioned is embodied in stru...